I'AGE FOrR.
Lawthermen Engage
Stang Temple Five
Penn State's talent-loaded basketball schedule will pit the Lions
against their third, successive powerhouse unit Saturday night at
spacious Convention Hall when they face star-laden Temple Uni
versity, thirty-first in national ranking, in one part of a twin-bill.
Coach Josh Cody is not taking the game lightly, realizing that
State's rugged sliding zone is possible of wreaking havoc with the
Owls' inside plays.
LEAD DISTRICT
Cody's Quaker City contingent
is currently top dog in the scrap
for leadership of the college
basketball championship of the
Philadelphia dis
trict. Because of 4011*'
the Lawther
zone.
olb,
Eddie
Lerner, Temple's a I
set shot artist,
and Nelson Bobb, ' W. '
who can also op , •
operate efficient- ,• i i ,
ly from the out
side,
will prob- .
ably be called 7.0 , ',
upon to display
%
all thei_ long
range wizardry.
Temple's • e t
eran gang of basket-bombardiers
lost to Syracuse University, 59-44,
earlier this year, but returned to
the limelight shortly after by un
dermining LaSalle's Explorers in
its first intra-city match this
season.
SCORING NIL
The s o-c alled "rock-ribbed"
Orange defense held Temple's
prolific scoring twins, Bobb and
Lerner, to only eight points be
tween the m. (Last Saturday
Coach John Lawther's team up-
ended the same Syracuse quintet
63-47.)
Temple boasts impressive de
cisions over such toughies as
Duke, Boston U., Wake Forest and
St. John's.
In two hard-fought soirees last
year, the two squads split even.
Temple won the first encounter,
55-44, with State surprising by
copping the second, 64-62.
Bobb, Temple's outstanding
sharpshooter, starred in both con
tests last year, pushing through
37 counters. The curly-haired for
ward hit for 23 tallies in Conven
tion Hall and 14 in the State Col
lege tussle. Blond Milt Simon,
with 21 points, was the star of the
Lions' revenge win on the home
court.
RUHLMAN
Cody will probably go with
Bobb and John Ballots at for
ward, 'lke' Borsavage at center,
and Wally Hatkevich, Ed Lerner
or Bill Nelson at the ball-hand
ling spots.
In Bobb, Cody will floor prob
ably the best all-around player
in the Philadelphia district. In
four years of varsity competition
the Owl flash has close to 1,000
points.
If Lerner, the other half of the
Owls' one-two punch, is hitting
Continued on page eight
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
HATKEVICH
MIKE FILIPOS
Undefeated Lehigh 121-pound
wrestler who appears here to
morrow night.
Foggmen Drill
For !SU Meet
The ski team has been working
out daily in preparation for the
intercollegiate Ski Union meet,
a championship meet for mem
bers of the ISU, to be held at Ith
aca, N.Y., today and Saturday.
In the recent St. Lawrence
Winter Carnival at Canton, N. Y.,
held last weekend, Coach Fogg's
charges gave a goal account of
themselves, finishing seventh in
a field of eleven, and placing be
fore such teams as Ottawa and
Toronto. The carnival was won
by the host team, St. Lawrence
University.
PERFORM WELL
Sterling Bankert, Bill Graf and
Jim Raymond performed credit
ably in the cross-country and
jump events, enabling the Fogg
men to place fifth in the former
and sixth in the latter. Their ef
forts were good enough to allow
their team to take fifth place in
the Classic Combined, which is a
combination of the two events.
Unfortunately, the usual weak
ness present in the downhill and
slalom events, in which the.team
placer ninth and tenth, respec
tively, to gain only tenth place in
the Alpine Combined, was re
sponsible for its not placing high
er in the final scoring.
WAHL IMPRESSES
The poor showing in these
visits could be attributed to the
- am's lack of practice due to the
absence of snow. However, Coach
Fogg was impressed by the show
ing of Herb Wahl, whose per
formance was the team's best in
the downhill and slalom events.
Lion Varsity, Jayvees
Grapple EIWA Champs
An injury-riddled Lion wrestling team puts its record of three
wins and a single loss on the line when it faces Lehigh University's
grapplers at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Bee Hall. An afternoon meeting
between the Blue and White, Jayvees and the Lehigh juniors will
begin at 3 p.m
Lehigh, defending team champion of the Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Association, has racked
up five wins this season against a
14-13 loss to Cornell.
Dick Kelsey, 136-pounder, and
Jim Jackson at 175 pounds are the
defending titleholders. Kelsey
suffered an early season surprise
loss by fall to Dick Gotchel of
Penn, but has since won three
straight. Jackson saw action for
the first time last week when the
Engineers trampled Army under
a 29-5 score, and he captured a
decision win.
The Erikson duo, Eric and Ed,
face the Lions for the third
straight year. Eric, 155-pounder,
and Ed, who wrestles at 165-
pounds, were both second-placers
in last year's EIWA meet. Ed
won the 165-pound crown in 1947.
Both Erikson's are unbeaten this
year.
HEAVIES
In the heavyweight class, Coach
Sheridan has
two outstandin,
matmen. Georg
"Gus" LaSassi
fourth - place
garnerer in the
EIWA run-off •
1948, and Do
Berndt are bo
undefeated. L
Sasso has w o
three, straig
bouts by fa
while Berndt
has two fall wins SCHAUTZ
and a draw with
Cornell's Dick Clark to his cred
it.
Coach Charlie Speidel will pro
bably present a jumbled lineup
for tomorrow night's encounter
with the Eastern team champs.
Two unbeaten members of the
squad, Johnny Reese, 121-pound
er, and Jim Maurey, the lighter
half of the Nittany "Pin Pair"
at 145-pounds, have been forced
to the sidelines with injuries.
UNCERTAIN
The final word on the Lion
starters for both the varsity and
Jayvee meets won't be known un
til this afternoon. At 121-pounds,
Captain George Schautz will be
tested for the first time this sea
son, but the Jayvee grappler in
that weight is still undetermined.,
Jack Dreibelbis and Jim Walk
er are still in the running for the
128-pound berth, as are Al Fas
nacht and Don Arbuckle at 136
pounds. Larry Shalleross, Mickey
Silverman and George Thomas
are vying for the 145-pound post,
while Bill Santel and Bill Brink
er are battling for the right to
fight-at 155 pounds.
Bob Hetrick will hold down his
'osition at 165-pounds, but Bob
Markle and Bill "Spider" Corman
are 175-pound cldss potentials.
Unbeaten Homer Barr goes after
his fifth straight fall win in the
heavyweight class.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1949
letween
The
*Wig
By Tom Morgan
SPORTS EDITOR
In Retrospect
A copy of. the Pitt News in our
exchange file prompts us to
focus our attention today on
Pitt Stadium the afternoon of
November 20, 1948. That day Pitt
laid the Nittany Lion prostrate
on the football gridiron, and the
reverberations of the Lion's thud
will continue many moons.
One of those reverberations
is a letter penned to the Pitt
News, from which we quote:
"One gentleman, who prefers
to be known as 'An Ardent Pitt
Fan,' encloses a clipping from.
Public Opinion, the Chambers
burg paper, underlining the fol
lowing portion of an article quot
ing Harry Dayhoff, referee at the
Pitt-State. game:
"'He went into detail on the
upset of Penn State by Pitt
and stated that internal dissen
sion among the players was
one of the reasons for Penn
State's downfall.
"'The best team didn't win
that game,' Dayhoff declared.
'Penn State did everything but
lick them in the score.'"
The News admits that Mr. Day
hoff statistically "has a point"
about the outcome of the game,
then comments:
"It's strange that Mr. Dayhoff
should mention internal dissen
sion, something not indicated by
Local newsmen, a reliable crew
that would have mentioned it if
they heard of it."
We Agree
We second the News in dis
counting the seriousness of Mr.
Dayhoff's statement about dis
senion, since nothing of the
sort was uncovered.
And we add that, since the
Nittany offense was not func
tioning as per usual, the players
were no doubt prone to inject a
loud word into the huddle before
each play. (Coach Bob Higgins
has often censured his players
strongly on this practice.) Be
cause the referee is the closest
person to a huddle outside of the
team itself, Dayhoff probably
drew ha sty conclusions from
overhearing heated, fleeting hud
dle discussions.
We querieci Negley Norton,
next season's co-captain, on
this and got the following
reply:
"We were just not 'up.' The
Learn as a whole was not click
ing, so everyone was tense and
probably spoke his mind. a lit
tle more sharply than usual.
That I don't call dissension."